8 grand for a 23.5 Mega pixel Nikon? Yep!

This 24.5 megapixel

D3X DSLR Nikon Camera

will set you back: $8,000 dollars.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/

Koolhunter,
Finding the Cool and the UnCool.
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Post: KH2-1 WD's 2 TB Hard Drive. Whoa!

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WD's 2 TB Hard Drive.

Whoa!
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Extreme Tech Link: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2339784,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

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In 1985, Loyd Case bought a 20 MB drive for $600.

The WD 2 TB (Terabytes) drive sells for $299, that's half the
price for 100,000 times the storage.

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That's the kind of Stuff that makes Computing so interesting.

Wingman.

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Preface to the Return Of the KoolHunter Chron

Happy Father's Day....To ME!

The Newest member of my Digital family is:
The Canon Powershot A580 and a 1GB memory stick.

I'll get back to you shortly. I'm still reading the manual on this Beauty.

Wingman out.

Books Open, Virtual and Online

Remember when Google started digitizing all the library books it could get it's hand on?

Well in the mean time Microsoft and Yahoo have jumped into the fray with loads of Money to kick-start this worthwhile endeavor.

Well just this last week, Microsoft has cut the purse strings, and unlocked it rights to project and the copying hardware. Very nice thing.

Leo, at TWiT had Special Guest: Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive talk about the status of this free online library, and it's Legal ramifications.

Check out these sources at:

http://www.archive.org/index.php

http://www.fullbooks.com/

http://audible.com/

Wingman, in the Reading Room.

Linux and WIFI

http://binarywolf.com/249/hotspots.htm

Finding Hotspots and Tools to Access WIFI


ACS American Constitution Society
For Law and Policy
Jennifer

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In many respects, WiFi on Linux is not quite Ready-For-Primetime.

Even the latest Fedora 8, which Yashamaru is testing on a laptop before installing to his main machine Could Not find the WiFi signal running in our house. I've had similar setbacks with Fedora Core 6 and WiFi.

Ethernet cable works great on FC6. Even my Sony PSP catches WiFi like a champ, making my homebrew enabled Internet Radio very enjoyable, with rarely a drop in the signal to interrupt the music (a good way to test the wifi connection).

Another detail Yashamaru, found working on a Windows XP powered laptop he was converting to run Linux, was XP's lack of driver support for SATA (serial ATA) harddrives, the New Standard.

More to come, on WiFI and Linux.
Wingman out.

If You Knew Suse Like I Know SuSE....

Yep, I'm back for a brief visit to SuSE land. It's called openSuSE now.

This is only temporary. 10.2 has problems, which I'll talk about at my MediaCircus2 blog. No need to rehash that here.

This is for workarounds that really work.

First up, Setting up a XEN Virtual Machine.

I need to install a XEN Virtual Machine. So I visited openSuSE 10.2 website for information.

The ground work.